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Almost Home:
After the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, Virginia, in April 1865, Henry Kyd Douglas made his way towards home.
"For some reason I never understood -- pure cussedness I think it was -- I was told my parole would not permit me to go home across the Potomac and that I must stop south of the river. I had no money to pay for boarding, but fortunately a bachelor friend, James H. Shepherd, took me into his comfortable home. I was informed that I must get out of that rebel uniform. I had some time-eaten clothes at my home, and I also had a mule. I sold that animal for $125 in Greenbacks, bought a few clothes and began life."
Confederates surrender on April 9, 1865, in Appomattox, Virginia. Walker's Brigade, commanded by Major Henry Kyd Douglas, was the last unit of the Army of Northern Virginia to surrender. |